Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure t…

- Stephen Daldry

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and …

- Stephen Daldry

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is Da…

- Stephen Daldry

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. An…

- Stephen Daldry

I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been…

- Stephen Daldry

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

- Stephen Daldry

Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight ti…

- Stephen Daldry

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to …

- Stephen Daldry

I'm not really a director for hire. You read these scripts and go, 'This is a really great script, but Paul Greengrass would make this so much better…

- Stephen Daldry